A Solution for Private Cloud Security

A Solution for Private Cloud Security

Welcome to the "A Solution for Private Cloud Security" series of three papers on private cloud security. With increasing numbers of organizations looking to create
cloud-based
environments or to implement cloud technologies within their existing data centers, business and technology decision-makers are looking closely at the possibilities and practicalities that these changes involve.

Evidence of this growth of interest in the cloud is shown by organizations such as Gartner, who in their 2011 poll of Chief Information Officers identified cloud computing as the top technology priority

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Although the increase in business agility coupled with greater flexibility of service provisioning are convincing arguments in favor of moving to the private and hybrid cloud
models, significant deployment blockers remain. The Gartner 2012 Planning Guide on Security and Risk Management
identified security as the top issue for cloud adoption. Consequently, progress towards implementing private cloud technologies will not advance without organizations and IT departments showing how they can effectively
address these concerns.

Microsoft is investing heavily on developing innovative technologies that enable organizations to design and create robust and comprehensive private and hybrid cloud environments. This guidance considers the security aspects
of these designs and consists of the following three papers:

Together, these three documents provide a comprehensive explanation of the process for designing and running security for such a private cloud environment. These documents all use the
Microsoft Private Cloud Reference Model
as the framework for the security discussion.

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The aim of the Solution for Private Cloud Security documents is to provide you with an
architectural view for understanding, designing and operating effective security within a private cloud environment.

This series targets a range of potential audiences, all of whom fall within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of a cloud provider. These audiences can include the following cloud roles:

Decider

Designer

Implementer

Operator

We hope you find this series useful and informative. To provide review comments and feedback, please write to Tom Shinder at
tomsh@microsoft.com.

CONTRIBUTORS AND REVIEWERS

We would like to give a heartfelt thanks to the following contributors and reviewers for this beta (v0.95) version of the "A Solution for Private Cloud Security" document set. Without their comprehensive and detailed writing and reviews, this work
could not have been possible.